The limited natural resources combined with
the increasing demand for traditional energy is a prominent challenge the world
has to face today.
In China, a number of plants have already been on
their journey exploring to reduce the energy consumption through automatic
reforming, thermal energy cycling, adopting heat insulting construction
material etc. Some are reforming their lighting system in the plant. How much would
the plants energy efficiently benefit from the lighting reforming?（learn more）
To most plants in China, the electricity
expense is always the most part on their energy bill. The fact is that the
electricity consumed by lighting can account as much as 20% of the total
electricity expense. An industry unit of 30,000 square meter (300,000squ ft.)
averagely has RMB10Million as electric expense, among which RMB2Million is for
lighting.
By choosing a new system of lighting with high energy
efficiency, it is not hard to cut by half the electricity consumed by lighting.
That is a 10% of total electricity expense or RMB1 Million for the example
mentioned above. Furthermore, the reforming of lighting system is simple and
quick to carry out. SO the only question is Why Not?
It is important to
ask how long is the Payback before a plant starting to implement lighting
reform. To use Acuity Brands Inc. industrial lighting luminaires of excellent
efficiency, an average payback of 1 year is expectable. There are surely some
reasons for the performance.（learn more）
1.In China, a lot of newly-built plants do
not pay attention to choose the lighting system, some even outsource through
agent. They don’t realize the how big is the difference between a good and a
bad lighting system, and it is not surprised to see low standard lighting
luminaires with short life span and low efficiency were adopted.
2. Even though some plants realized the
importance of choosing a decent lighting system, they are always lack of
sufficient information and finally chose a system not matching the target.
3. There are a lot local luminaires born to
compete on price. The energy efficiency, life span and other facts have never
been put on the agenda.
4. To produce a high standard luminaire with high
efficiency requires persistent R&D, which Acuity Brands has been carrying
out for a century. It’s not hard to
understand the fast payback when an old system replaced by Acuity Brands’.
High energy
efficiency and fast payback period is just half of the story. An excellent
industrial lighting system is supposed to benefit the users in more aspects.（learn more）
The plants can expect more while enjoying
the cut down on electricity expense.
1.The
Acuity Brans industrial luminaires have a life span as long as 5 years or more.
This lessens the maintenance working afterwards.
2.The lighting decay is controlled within a
small level. The light output keeps stable during the whole life period. The
low decay makes the long life more significant.
3.The lighting quality defined by such as CRI, Color
Temperature, Illumination Uniformity and Glare Index is taken care and it can
improve the staffs working efficiency. Even in the industrial environment, the
lighting quality casts positive effect on the construction.
Before a plant start to improve its
lighting system, those concerns should be considered in advance.
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1.The illumination intensity, usually
measured by Lux, should keep no less than old system after replacing.
Otherwise, the saving on energy and expense does not make any sense.
2.The illumination intensity shall be
measured over the whole workshop, but not just at some specific points, for
example, right under the luminaires. It is the average Lux makes sense.
3.Put an eye on the lighting decay. Long expected life
without guarantee on low lighting decay is meaningless. Try to use the
luminaires provided by creditable suppliers.
Acuity Brands, as one of the biggest
luminaires manufacturers in the world, has a strict procedure to carry out the
industrial lighting replacement and provides users with guarantee and
confidence.
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1. Before any project starting, we will
issue Luminaire Schedule simulated by Acuity Brands lighting software. Those
illumination intensity will be tested after the project finishes.
2. We provide accurate lighting decay
parameter and guarantee on it across the whole guarantee period.
3. The improvement on energy efficiency of
the whole system can be tested and deemed as part of the guarantee we offered
to end user.
With the sufficient and accurate information before
project, and the guarantee offered by Acuity Brands after project, the plants
has nothing to worry and can make sure its interest is safeguarded.
Here below is an
example of a project, in which a Nanjing plant replaced their Metal Halogen
lamps with one of Acuity Brands’ most popular industrial luminaires.
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As a distributor of
Acuity Brands in China, we, Shanghai Liton Lighting is ready to provide you
with the product information and help to improve the lighting system in your
plant.